* Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > > > > Hmmm, you'll notice by the end of the output the virtual size stays > > constant (in fact it shrinks slightly near the end), and the does seem > > to be trending upward slightly, it does oscillate around a bit. The > > rss number change purely due to the kernel's memory manager fiddling > > with pages and not necessarily that the amount of memory consumed is > > going up. You only ran the test for 10 hours, you should try running > > it for several days to see if more of a trend appears. > > Attached you will find a two day run (limited by a several hour power > outage) for firefox with nothing displayed during the time (Homepage: > about:blank) and the browser never used. Overall memory usage continues > to grow. > > I plan to do similar tests with the browser actually displaying a page > over several days.
Firefox 3 is around the corner and in experimental. Willing to take it for a spin and see if it's as bad? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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